Dean Liu is on DLive - My New Journey of Discovery

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Dear Steemians and Dlivers,


Yeah, that’s right. After many good friends of mine on Steem have joined this hot platform and thanks to @travelgirl’s sincere invitation, I have decided to give it a try and start yet another new journey on Steem with @Dlive from now on.

Actually at first I did not think that’s a good idea. Not only because 95% of the time my blogs are static - mostly texts and sometimes my photos, but also due to the fact that … I have never shown up in any of my photos or videos - body, face, voices… no, nada. I care about my private identity and I don’t think this is any obstacle to a deep interaction with my audience. How can a guy like this do LIVE streaming? Right, that was my thought when they invited me.

However, mainly two things changed my mind afterwards.

Firstly, they explained to me that Dlive not only has LIVE streaming, but also videos, meaning that you don’t need to do LIVE videos to use that platform!! That was the first time I know about it - before that I thought anything on Dlive must be at least live when you post it and then those live videos become non-live and can be viewed afterwards. Obviously I was wrong. So, I have done videos before so I should definitely consider using it.

Secondly, since the invitation I got intrigued by the idea of LIVE streaming and cannot drop this idea out of my mind. What makes people want to watch live streaming? What’s the true value for being live? What can I do on DLive to increase value for others while sticking to my principles of not revealing myself? … All sound very interesting and challenging to me. So I cannot resist the idea of doing something really different or even experimental on DLive. The question changed from why to why not

So there you go,

Dean Liu is on DLive!!


Sounds so meant to be, right? ^_^ Please don’t expect to see me in person, because I still won’t show up in any of my future streams or videos. Besides, I am no pretty girls so really you miss nothing and let my brain do the value-up to this live streaming arena, ok?

It certainly will be quite difficult to do live streaming without a host, but I don’t want to join here and only do videos. So I promise that I will definitely do live streaming at least once and hopefully more if I have good ideas keep coming and for the rest I will also explore what kind of videos I can bring to you to enrich this platform.

I already have one idea about my experimental live streaming, but I will keep it as a surprise and I need time to get familiar with those technical details.

Meanwhile, I will explore more about what others are doing on DLive - it’s quite a new thing to me too! I have already checked out the platform and most of live videos seem to be gaming. Some where deep down my memory long ago, I can really appreciate the value of watching others playing games - yeah, I understand as when I was very young, I used to stand behind the arcade game consoles and watch others play and I could stand there for a long long time as if I was playing … Kind of like that right?

While I can still understand it, me as a middle aged person can no longer afford the luxury of spending my time like that. So one of my goal here is to explore the potential ways to utilize live streaming, or, in simpler words, how to play it differently!?

I’ll end this with this question mark and keep you waiting for the answer. ^_^

Thanks for reading and thanks for future watching. I’ll see you soon!

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CN區朋友們好,

是的,劉美女也來加入@DLive了!我即將開始使用這平台囉!

但是請別開心太早啊(其實根本沒人開心,嗚嗚嗚),我真人不露相的原則還是不會改變的喔。什麼?不露臉不出聲音,還要搞什麼Live啊?

對啊,我一開始也是這麼想。但是呢,DLive的夥伴 @travelgirl來邀請我時跟我說明了,你不一定都要做即時轉播,其實DLive平台也可以當成視頻平台的。這是我第一次知道這件事,原來我一直以為,你要玩DLive的話,上傳的那第一次必須是要直播的,之後變成非直播的視頻,可以重複觀看那就是一定的囉。原來如此,所以我還是可以考慮一下(畢竟… 咳咳…. ^^)。

其次是,自從開始理解直播這回事之後,我開始對這件事感到興趣:到底人們為什麼要看直播?直播的價值在哪裡?不只是Steem,外界直播的市場非常大的,尤其是亞洲。所以,我也開始思考這一回事…. 或許,我也可以挑戰一下,用全新的方式來玩直播這件事?似乎是很有趣的挑戰哪。

總之呢,後來我就覺得可以一試,只是拖了比較久才寫這一篇聲明,真不好意思啊!^_^

來來來,鄉親父老注意啦!

Dean Liu is on DLive!! 劉美女開始玩直播啦!


哈哈,這句話聽起來很吸引人吧!但我還是不會露臉說話的喔!往後我的視頻影音相關的文章,就會改以DLive來做為平台,而且我也承諾,既然上DLive,就不能迴避玩直播,我都說要以全新方式來玩了,至少我會做到一次,也希望我能玩出更多花樣,一起來探索思考,什麼樣的直播,能夠帶給人們什麼樣不同的感受吧!

目前DLive的影音,直播類可能主要是以Gaming為主。我年輕的時候可能也會非常瘋這個,所以我可以理解。但年紀大了(都25歲了),這類型的視頻已經無法讓我感到有趣了,所以我想,我的任務就是為比較高齡的用戶,來找出直播這個新時代的產物,能否對他們的生活也產生一點意義吧?哈哈,沒那麼嚴肅,反正就是盡量玩出不一樣的東西囉!

那麼,就有勞讀者們轉型成觀眾們,持續鎖定,拭目以待囉!

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[八卦] 石墨烯之爭

原本呢,是要奉上DA-ChainTalk最新一篇文章分享,因為某些原因,我就請 @antonsteemit這次發在他自己名下帳號了,各位請移駕前往看看 Graphene - 新的區塊傳遞協議 是非常有意思的內容喔!

相信大家都還沒點過去,等著看我說的某些原因吧!呵呵,我知道你們都很八卦…. 那就看完再點過去看吧!

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那就要說起Graphene,石墨烯,是什麼東東了…

我初來乍到這裡的時候,曾經也搞不清楚,那個最新尖端材料石墨烯,跟區塊鏈有什麼關係啊…. 混久了你就知道….. 答案是:沒關係

說不定,你們連最原始的石墨烯是什麼都不知道?看看上面那張圖,那就是石墨烯結構示意圖。我來引述一下中文維基百科

石墨烯(Graphene)是一種由碳原子以sp2混成軌域組成六角型呈蜂巢晶格的平面薄膜,只有一個碳原子厚度的二維材料。石墨烯一直被認為是假設性的結構,無法單獨穩定存在,直至2004年,英國曼徹斯特大學物理學家安德烈·海姆和康斯坦丁·諾沃肖洛夫,成功地在實驗中從石墨中分離出石墨烯,而證實它可以單獨存在,兩人也因「在二維石墨烯材料的開創性實驗」為由,共同獲得2010年諾貝爾物理學獎。

石墨烯目前是世上最薄卻也是最堅硬的奈米材料,它幾乎是完全透明的,只吸收2.3%的光;導熱系數高達5300 W/m·K,高於碳奈米管和金剛石,常溫下其電子遷移率超過15000 cm2/V·s,又比奈米碳管或矽晶體(monocrystalline silicon)高,而電阻率只約10-6 Ω·cm,比銅或銀更低,為目前世上電阻率最小的材料。因為它的電阻率極低,電子的移動速度極快,因此被期待可用來發展出更薄、導電速度更快的新一代電子元件或電晶體。由於石墨烯實質上是一種透明、良好的導體,也適合用來製造透明觸控螢幕、光板、甚至是太陽能電池。

簡言之就是:超厲害的一種新世代材料。知道這就夠了。

那麼,區塊鏈的石墨烯是什麼?

當然,最早就是我們熟悉的Dan Larimer所創建的一種DPOS模式的區塊鏈協議,他把這命名為石墨烯(Graphene)。這一個區塊鏈協議先是用在Bitshares上,再及於Steem,以及即將上線的EOS。至於,Dan為什麼要用這個材料名稱來命名他的區塊鏈協議?我不知道,也沒看他說過,不過,似乎不難猜測:石墨烯這詞很酷,很有領先時代的感覺,而且石墨烯之美在於其六角網狀結構,單純又強大,我覺得這一個命名是很棒的。(就像是Ethereum的命名也是挺酷以及有深度的一樣)

好了,八卦來了。其實有點舊的八卦了,只是我看似乎中文網頁沒找到有人討論,所以我來當八卦第一先鋒…

事情已經是半年前了,我孤陋寡聞,竟然不知道此事。但Steemit圈內,許多人觸角敏銳,第一時間就提出質疑了,我找兩篇給你們看看:

Bitcoins Team Makes Their Graphene… But Bitshares already Has It.. WTH ???

Bitcoin team make their graphene’but bit shares already has it with’?

事情就是,在去年11月的這個會議(Scaling Bitcoin Conference 2017)上,一個團隊發表了比特幣上一個新區塊廣播協議的構想,詳情請看Graphene - 新的區塊傳遞協議,中文新聞可以看石墨烯区块传播技术能够实现10倍的更高效率

所以囉,人家也叫石墨烯,當然也跟材料石墨烯沒關,但顯然不知道是真不知道這詞已經被用過了,還是根本就不打算給面子… 這也是上面兩篇文章,許多人很生氣的原因。畢竟,這又不是專利,你要是去開發個區塊鏈,也想叫它Ethereum,應該不會侵權的,只是你可能會被笑而已。

但Dan版的石墨烯可不是隨便的路人啊,這底層協議已經弄出了幣圈市值 #5 #30 #31 的三大項目啊!當然啦,比特幣是老大哥,但好歹算是一圈子人嘛,名詞這種東西,要想的話,可以想成千上百個,何必單戀一個已經被用過的詞呢?難道真的是赤裸裸地無視嗎?嘿嘿,八卦味有沒有越來越濃~~

我當然沒有答案囉,英文的來源也沒找到什麼進一步的訊息,有誰知道什麼可以補充的都很歡迎~~

所以囉,基於我們是在Steem平台上,所以我們的DA-ChainTalk就不幫他們強化這詞囉。可是,技術內容還是很值得學習的,所以我請Anton發在他那邊,動靜小一點,讓我在這裡罵大街,然後我們後面小房間一起去學習去吧!^^

再次廣告一下:Graphene - 新的區塊傳遞協議

然後學習完,再次譴責一下這個假的Graphene,其實是一種比特幣網路傳遞訊息優化的協議,應該取個比較有快速意涵的名字,如果閃電已經用過了,那就用Teleportation,還是…. Shunkan Idō)… 不是都挺好的嗎?^_^

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Glimpses of Hualien 花蓮掠影

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I am sharing with you the photo collection of my Hualien trip - mountains, seashore, streets, buildings, stores, stalls, night shots … All are presented without any image processing. Enjoy.

這次把我在花蓮隨手拍攝的影像一次集結在此:山景,海色,街頭,建築,店鋪,夜晚 … 沒什麼主題,主題就是花蓮。希望你還沒厭倦這主題…. >_<

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Rep, Followers and Pageviews

Well, yesterday @oflyhigh wrote a Chinese post marking his Rep 75 milestone on Steemit (Congratulations bro!!) and this got me thinking of the missing pageviews from Steemit.com for quite some time now…

If we are to look at some important personal parameters on Steem, here are the most likely candidates: Steem Power, reputation, followers. These are all on-chain data. But as I mentioned, pageviews on Steemit.com, to me, is also a very important number.

Let’s skip SP as those money related numbers of course matter and I assume that most people come to Steem would know this. So, let’s look at Rep, followers and pageviews, which I think all have some intrinsic defects but of course still carry some information with them.

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Reputation is supposed to be a measure that tells the general public about how this user is evaluated by the community, that means include the user him/herself and others. While this might be true before HF19, it is getting less so after the reward mechanism being changed to linear and the tendency to only care about self and own close circle prevails. Because you can buy your way up the Rep ladder with ease now since vote buying/selling is enabled by delegation + linear rewards. The index is contaminated. I am not saying that it was a perfect measure back then (yes, I am aware of the old whale self-voting, sock-puppets, and stuffs), but at least was a good reference point. Now, the future of current Rep system seems pretty doomed.

Followers


Yeah, this is also a non-monetary incentive to encourage bloggers to do better. Let’s ignore the problem of Dead Followers and look at what this number means. Obviously a lot of users celebrate follower milestones too.

Let me put it this way: followers … they ain’t no fans. That’s for sure. I have 7,785 followers now. Wow, gee, my mom would be thrilled! It’s like I have a whole town following my work!! No, it is not. I know. It’s not entirely un-true that followers are your fans, but I am only saying that while fans are followers but followers most of the time are not your fans.

It’s simple - following people don’t cost anything. People can follow others for all sorts of reasons - a) that guy is rich! b) I follow any trending authors I see c) this guy is incredibly retarded, let me mark it so I can tell my friends next time and d) I am a following-everyone bot …

If I have close to eight thousand fans, comments to my posts and pageviews won’t be just single or double digits. Although part of the reasons are that I have been writing mostly in Chinese in the past year, still, I know that this phenomenon applies to others, with exceptions of course.

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Therefore, the only seemingly good indicator of the influence of your post, before it vanished a week ago, is pageviews on Steemit.com. I am not sure if other UIs have such a design (busy.org does not). Pageviews can be pumped without much cost too - simply refresh the page and you will get a +1 view. I know. But, since this number is not associated with any rewards, so far it functions as a good feedback measure about my posts. I am happier if the pageview goes higher…

So, actually my main incentive to write this post is to appeal to the Steemit Inc …

Please bring back the pageview number, or at least tell us why you took it off the website and a future plan would be even better…


At the end, let me say something less frustrating - all of the above issues, I think, is partly caused by the encouraging fact that Steem is growing fast!! So, in a way, we should be happy about it and only need to think about how we can improve all these before we enter the massive growth phase as promised by HF20.

Hivemind obviously might be one of the answers. So, look forward to that too! Come on… makes us busy bees again…. ^_^

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最美運動場,加映最美畫室。

我在花蓮的時候,意外在騎腳踏車亂繞時,發現這個隱身在花蓮臨海一個小丘陵上的運動公園。

第一眼,就被它震攝住。心中只有:哇!~~ 好想在這裡跑步啊!

運動場本身當然沒辦法能多“美”,美的,當然是它所在的環境。看不到海,雖然吹的是海風,海就在百步之遙。但美的是那山,以及視野的開闊。旁邊還有好些民宅,真是羨慕他們,每天都可以到這個美麗的運動場來跑步散步啊!

我的陽春手機相機,沒辦法完全呈現它的美,而且,我此後大概經過了這裡三四次,總覺得應該會有更美的時候,例如彩霞滿天,晴空萬里,霏霏小雨等等。意思是,我沒這運氣拍到。

所以,請自己多加想像了!

向您介紹,「花崗山運動公園」,名字也挺美的呢!

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這次拍攝時天氣太陰沉,但可以看看那氣勢。

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旁邊有個小涼亭可以休息聊天。

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以下幾張,就是所拍攝時最美的時刻了。用心想像,你有沒有也很想在這裡跑步呢?^_^ 閉眼跑聽鳥叫蟲鳴,張眼跑,看遠處青山撫媚。晚上跑,看滿天星斗;清晨跑,看金光鑲雲….

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運動場有一半是馬路環繞,但車少,因為頗為偏僻。

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有間「天公廟」面向大海,神明可能也在這裡跑步?^^

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為了呈現整體,在相機裡想辦法找了全景模式拍攝。似乎,看起來有點怪,但,也可看看吧!請右鍵點選另開視窗,才能看清楚一點。

其實,最後我終究沒能在這裡跑步,因為後來在花蓮都是用走路的,雙腳早就累壞了,還來跑步?所以,暗自在心中留下一個未完的遺憾,下次再來!

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最後,運動公園旁,還有一間超美的美術教室,給小朋友上美術課用的,一起分享一下。右手邊那一間。

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這間名字叫做『九色鹿畫室』,好美的名字。當我第一次看到它的時候,已是傍晚時分。原本以為就是路邊兩棟老舊的房子,經過時,訝異於這樹,這房子的古老,這一些簡單的藝術裝飾,配上這名稱,頓時有種美術大師隱身鄉野授藝於童的胡思亂想。

然後,再透過窗口,看到有幾個小朋友坐在小桌前應該是在畫畫,看得我好生感動,心想他們好幸福啊!在這樣的環境下成長,未來的美術大家,似乎就都從這裡出身的呢!哈哈!

我沒去打擾他們,畢竟提出參觀要求也很奇怪。於是,再留一個遺憾,等待未來的緣份了。

[幻想中:以後我在這裡買房了,兒子每天放學到這間畫室學畫,我每天早晚到運動場散步….] 噓~~


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[B.D.單身日記] 偽單身快活

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“單身”的日子,已經三週有了吧?距離“脫離單身”的時刻,也算是倒數開始了。

「你一定很想他們吧?」這是我想像中的別人會對我說的,政治正確的話。噢,我並不是說這樣說的人不誠懇,這是一個非常合理,非常溫暖,的一種回應。但與此同時,這也是非常政治正確的一種詰問,跟你最近好嗎之類的問候,其實也差不多。

這類問題,通常,通常啦,沒辦法承接非政治正確的回答。例如,還好耶,或是,一點都不想。因為,這樣就尷尬了啊!我們問你是因為假設了你們是恩愛夫妻與幸福家庭,你竟然說不想,那是要怎樣,要我開始問你家庭有什麼問題嗎?我沒想要知道那麼多啦!拜託你說想就好了,讓我可以解套….

我還真的沒有很想。怎麼辦?我說的不是我的家庭,我說的是,要拿你怎麼辦?LOL…

我不是個喜歡配合演出的人,不喜歡歸不喜歡,但現實生活裡,沒少了得配合演出的時候。只是,在這個人生活的網上紀錄區裡,我就沒那麼想配合了。

其實,不想直接回「想他們」,還是可以打打哈哈,用其他的方式呼攏過去,包括:1) 加碼法:「想到我都要送急診了!」;2) 搞笑法:「呵呵,比特幣漲我就不想了!」;3) 言他法:「你上次說要搞活動,後來呢?」;4) 回丟法:「如果是你呢?你會想嗎?」….. 族繁不及備載。

但這樣也還是也有點累,所以,你看我是不是更體貼了,直接在文章裡提出來,你就不會用這個句型了。^^ (我知道aaronli這類的人,還是會故意問的,但我這樣說了,是不是他就不這樣問了?拭目以待)

回歸到問題:我想他們嗎?那我就來認真回答一下。以表示對於真心問這問題的人的尊重。

認真的回答就是,不給你一個簡單的yes no答案,而是申論一下。

沒事的時候,不想,應該說是,沒去想。也不習慣去想,因為想一個人,說真的,要幹嘛?你想他們也不會馬上回來啊,你說不定還不希望他們馬上回來,其實是一種「如果能夠想的時候,馬上出現,然後抱一下說兩句話之類的,他們就又繼續在外旅行了」之類的,那自然是最好的了。但這不存在可能性。

晚上看到老婆傳他們(其實主要是孩子)的照片時,當然會想啊!但也就那幾分鐘時間。

所以,其實,我的偽單身生活,還是挺自在快活的。有時候,我也會想到,我這樣是不是”太”快活了?怎麼”可以”不想呢?

稍微想一想就知道,其實,不想是很正常的。因為,第一,我不需要「想」給什麼人看,甚至不用想給他們看,這正是因為,我們彼此對於家庭與感情,都有無比的信心,而且都知道對方有無比的信心。不需要幸福給誰看的。第二,我的偽單身快活,其實正來自於,遠方的他們。因為,他們不論有多遠,只要我知道,他們早晚會回到我身邊,那就夠了啊,所以,其實我的偽單身快活,是建立在這樣的基礎上。這跟假設上如果有一天我們家庭破碎離婚之類的,所過的單身生活,是完全完全不同的。

最近的單身生活,總讓我想起比較年輕的時候,那時一人在外地生活,老家父母畢竟在老家,平常生活我就是一個人過,讀書,或是上班。讀書時有同學,上班時有同事,有時候還有同租的室友…. 但,如果當時沒有女友,就是一個人的生活。

那時候的單身,其實就真的比較容易寂寞起來,在夜深時刻,在脆弱時分。現在這樣的單身,在形式上跟當年有點類似−自由自在,想幹麻幹麻,想晚睡沒人唸我,想去哪也可以… 但是,說到底,在心理層面,是完全不同的。

所以,現在的我一點都不寂寞,好好地利用這段時間,把生活裡的一些事情給整頓好,把家庭生活裡常常被丟棄的自己的待辦清單,包括墮落類,好好給清一清。那麼,當他們回來時,我也更清爽了,他們也玩到了…

到時候,我就會開始想他們。因為他們就已經在我身邊了。

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